“STORIES OF NOW” is part of a project ArtBridges is working on with Judith Marcuse Projects’ ASCN (Arts for Social Change Network) and ICASC. It is about gathering and sharing stories emanating from ...
"The Music Care Training (MCT), a three-level program offered by the Room 217 Foundation, is the only baseline program available for caregivers of all backgrounds to learn the fundamentals of music in...
Music in Indigenous Cultures: Situated locally
June 13, 2018 | Room 217 - Music Care
Kelly Laurila M.Ed., MSW, RSW; PhD Candidate
laur4318[at]mylaurier.ca
Indigenous music...
Room 217 Webinar
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
No Wrong Notes: Group Singing in the Oral Tradition
"Singing without musical notation and written words nurtures spontaneity, collecti...
"Music and Healing in Cancer Care
SarahRose Black, MMT, Music Therapist,
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre & Kensington Hospice, Toronto, ON
Overview and Learning Objective...
A Song Says a Thousand Words: Songwriting with Patients and Caregivers
Sarah Pearson, MMT, Music Therapist, Grand River Regional Cancer Centre,
Kitchener, ON
Program Development Co...
"This is the first article in a ten-part series that focuses on each of the ten dimensions of music care, a framework for understanding music care delivery more deeply. Music care can be delivered in...
Healing from the drum: Wholistic Experiences of Indigenous Drum Circle
Kelly Laurila
M.Ed., MSW, RSW; Doctoral Student (3rd year)
laur4318[at]mylaurier.ca
"Integral natu...
"In this, our second instalment of this blog series on the ten dimensions of music care, we are focusing on Music Care Specialties. This domain refers to the many specialized fields that merge the pow...
"In this, our third instalment of this blog series on the ten dimensions of music care, we are focusing on Community Music. There is exciting academic research being done in the field of Community Mus...
"In this, our fourth installment of this blog series on the ten dimensions of music care, we look at musicking. Musicking refers to spontaneous music-making, but it comes from a deeper theory that mus...
"Smart phones and social media have changed the way people engage with art. In many ways, technology has enabled its users to become confident artists.
Thanks to easy Instagram filters, m...